Epiphany The journey of the Magi by James Tissot 1806 - 1902Shared via Wikimedia Commons. 60 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples;but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.3 And nations shall come to your light, and …
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Incarnation
Christmas 2023 A typical Christmas scene. A wooden building with straw on the floor. To the right are three men wearing crowns, the one at the front is kneeling presenting his gift. To the left are two boys, probably playing shepherds. In the centre are a couple, a young woman in blue and a man …
Growing in the darkness—Psalm 69
Psalms of David "The Lord hears the needy." This was the standout verse when I did my Lectio Divina on Psalm 69. This on one level is a typical lamenting psalm in that it uses an extended metaphor of a drowning man to describe the prayer of someone who is being persecuted for being faithful …
Who does God arise for?—Psalm 68
Psalms of David God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered. His enemies, not mine. You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott, though she attributes this to 'my priest friend Tom.' I am writing this at a …
Forgiveness is a lovely idea—Psalm 65
Psalms of David At last, a song of praise. This is the last of 15 Psalms by David, which have been arranged in three sets of five. It started with confession, the prayer of David when he was confronted about his Adultery and Murder, and continued through psalms based on mostly events from David's life. …
Hungry dogs—Psalm 59
Psalms of David David is in a pickle yet again. The incident in the title is in 1 Samuel 19 when Saul is trying to kill David but David's wife Michal, who is also Saul's daughter, warns David who escapes in the night. -o0o- Psalms in Book 2 are like Book 1 in that they …
Does God speak differently to autistics?
There is a difference between neurodiversity and neurodivergent: Neurodiverse is about a group of people, we are all different from each other. A single person is not neurodiverse, though neurodivergent people do refer to themselves as neurodiverse. Neurodivegent refers to people who have a brain that works significantly differentle to the norm, conditions such as …
The bog-hole—Psalm 40 and 70
Psalms of David Psalm 70 is the same as Psalm 40 verses 13-17. The psalm previou to it, Psalm 69, also mentions the miry bog or bog hole, so there is a connection between that psalm and this one. I started looking at the Psalms in Book 1 of the Psalms just over a year …
Taste and see—Psalm 34
Psalms of David Psalms in Book 1 (Psalms 1 to 41) are primarily personal songs, so I will look at how they apply to us personally. Social and communal aspects of life and work do not come in until the later books of Psalms. David was in a pickle. This has got nothing to do …
Two-way—Philippians 1:19
The prayers of Paul This is a series of the prayers of St Paul found in the letters attributed to him in the order he is believed to have written them. Letters to the same place or person will be treated together with the first letter to that destination. This prayer shows two two-way processes, …
